This is either a sneaky trick to get me to slack off in the last hour, or a gracious bow at the end of a difficult event. In either case, I say to you "well played!". You set a relentless pace at the beginning and maintained that level throughout the entire 3.5 days. It was certainly a challenge to say the least. And however things shake out, it was a fun ride for sure. Now I'll just give my phone a rest and let it charge, and wait to see how the powers that be in dish out the results.
I'm not sure exactly what your setup was but I had 28 mapples that almost never hit the ground. Every refresh I'd send them all, then buy livingstone, send em all, then buy Lobito and send them all again. Then wait for a standard refresh and repeat the process except this time I would be selling Lobito and Livingstone. It ended up being 4 groups of 7 mapples each. And I literally flew from 630 AM to around 1030 PM every day. I would take about two breaks a day while I ate lunch/dinner. Other than that these mapples never hit the ground. I'm curios what your setup was.
At first I planned to bux-sit using the cities I outlined earlier, plus Kinshasa and Windhoek. Each had 2 Cyclones for bux only, and the 5-6 closest cities to Kinshasa had 3 planes devoted to event jobs. This was extremely hectic and not super effective in accomplishing either task at a high level. By Monday night, I had switched over to full event mode - 30 Cyclones spread over Lagos, Paris, Cairo, Rio, Tehran and Istanbul. All the rest were Mapples shuttling event jobs out of Kinshasa. Each Cyclone got sent back empty and would get boosted in the incoming route when the time remaining dropped the cost down to 1 bux (time allowing). Bought and sold Lobito and Livingstone as well, but also Al Fashir, In Salah and Timbuktu. Mapples would get filled with each of these city refreshes. The Mapples would get boosted back empty most of the time, and if I had a ton of layovers waiting in Kinshasa I'd boost them full (2 bux).
Anybody after a Huey part and 10 Bux? If so, take at least 50 jobs to Port Hedland (western Australia, within easy reach of Jakarta) by 8am on Sunday morning and they can be yours. I've got two Hueys gathering dust in my hangar and I've got about 5x that many as layovers in my various airports, so - like they say in Dragon's Den - I'm out.
I ran a few refreshes worth of jobs out of Jakarta to get the minimum. But after Windhoek, to say I'm tired would be an understatement. But man....1 whole part of another useless plane to sit next to the ~120 C-130 parts and ~130 P-40 parts? Awfully tempting... Nimblebit - Give us an event for some damned blimps! And not for just a single part either. Merlion's blimp strat for bux-sitting sounds so tempting, and lordy knows how bux-sitting needs something interesting to make it bearable.
Update Phew! That button being slightly out of place on the bux menu was really bugging me. Thank you so much Nimblebit for fixing that. Best update yet -_-
The True Tale of the Penguin and the Pope Once upon a time the village was ruled by a mighty Pope. He was a righteous Pope, and he was popular with the villagers because he always shared with them strategies to get rich. Many tried to imitate him, but only the Sheriff came close. The Pope had one peculiar habit. Unlike most Popes he liked wearing the most outrageous headwear. This is why people called him Pope Hatz. But in the village lived also a little penguin. He too was popular in the village, for he was a courageous little penguin that was not easily impressed by the Powers That Be. His fellow villagers liked that, and they often called him a Superpenguin. Since the penguin came from a long line of equally courageous penguins, his full name was Superpenguin17. But most people just called him Penguin. One day the little penguin said, why is it that the almighty Pope should always win the village contest? Pope Hatz may call himself a Pope, but that doesn't give him an unquestionable right to rule the roost. It's not healthy for someone in such a high position to always win this easily. Someone should challenge him every once in a while, lest he starts thinking he is better than us, instead of, like a true Pope, being a fellow citizen among citizens. And since the Penguin was a bird of action, he immediately stepped up to the plate and threw down the gauntlet. What followed was a truly heroic battle. All the villagers gathered in the village square, trying to get a glimpse of what was going on. The Pope spread his mighty Cyclone wings and took an impressive lead, but the little penguin, who had a lot of sympathy in the village, was given some extra little Mapple wings by some of his friends and managed to stay close to the Pope, sometimes even gaining an advantage over the surprised Papal hatter. Back and forth it went, wings were fluttering, planes were flinging, thumbs were whizzing over screens so fast you could hardly see them move. The saloonkeeper, who went by the name of TheFantasyIcon (this was a truly mythical village), gave out free conspiracy theories with every drink, and Faye Valentine brought freshly baked cakes for the spectators to enjoy. In the end, the Pope won. But everyone agreed it was one of the best fights they had ever seen, and both players deserved the highest honours that the village could bestow on its citizens: Superduperhero Cum Laude. Pope Hatz remained the Pope of the village; and the Penguin once again was the hero of the common people. Everybody celebrated until deep into the night, and the Sheriff even let his penguin hatted children stay up as long as they wished. And thus ended one of the greatest sagas of the little village of TA1ville. Merlion, a mythical fishy feline who was also the village's chronicler, wrote it all up and entered the tale into the Great Book of MOFO, where many of the village's great tales reside. But that is a story for another day.
Windhoek MOFOs What a fight that was! Just when a new Hero breaks the 25k barrier and you think it could't get more spectacular, this happens. A heroic fight between a newly motivated polar bird, determined to unseat the leader of the pack, and the newly minted pretender to the Silver Yoke throne. The MOFOs are truly a gift that keeps on giving. Popehatz, big congratz with your hat trick victory. Keep up the good works, and thou shalt be Champ; Penguin, equally big congrats with your equally impressive second place on the podium; and both, congratulations with your newly acquired status of Superduperhero for breaking the 10k barrier in a Class 1 airport, with 13,431 jobs and 12,346 jobs respectively. Sheriff Vic came in a respectable third, separated from the first two duelers by a gulf that was more than 7,000 jobs wide. Congrats with yet another podium, lawman! 'Zoo did 4th, Ktc 5th and Faye took 6th, all in the 4,000s. Seventh place was for Lorena, Jamc took 8th, both in the 3,000 range, and the Top Ten was completed by Tater with 2,399, and North. The latter set the entry price for a Top Ten Ticket at a nicely rounded 1,500 jobs, creatin gan almost factor 10 difference between first and tenth, a record all by itself. It was a riveting fight, and it shows that neither PP, nor TA1, nor the MOFOs are close to death, as some of the more pessimistic crew members are wont to believe. This, though, does not relieve NimbleBit from the obligation to come up with a serious update with at least some new planes PDQ. Capisce, NimbleBitters? On to the concurrent standings for SY7 and GS3: 1st: Popehatz, 75 points (1st, 50); 2nd: Penguin, 40 (2nd, 22); 3rd: Faye, 28 incl. one 2nd place (3rd, 20); 4th: Nalazoo, 28 incl. one 3rd (5th, 16); 5th: Ktc24, 26 (6th, 16); 6th: Vic, 21 (11th, 6); 7th: Jmac, 19 (8th, 15) 8th: Nokitano, 18 (4th, 18); 9th: Green Paper, 15 (7th, 15); 10th: North, 11 (9th, 10). Popehatz of course reigns supreme, with Penguin in his wake. 35 Points now separate them, with 175 first place points still to be earned. Only a continued defence will stand in the way of a determined polar bird, wanting to get even by conquering the Cup. Watch this space! Faye and 'Zoo share 28 points, with Faye taking 3rd because of her higher placing in Honolulu. 'Zoo climbs one place, as does Ktc two points behind her, going from 6th to 5th. Sheriff Vics third place in the Hook earns him 5 extra places, and he reenters the Top Ten in 6th; Jmac climbs a place to 7th; and Nokitano drops to 8th. Green Paper and North complete the Top Ten, coming from 7th and 9th respectively. Tater only misses the Top Ten because of North's 5th place in Honolulu, as they both share an 11 points score; and behind Tater sit Lorena and Rebartsch with 7 and 4 respectively. As a result, the number of people with MOFO points in SY7/GS3 is still exactly thirteen. There are still a lot of points to be earned, people! New entrants into the Top Ten, or even into the points, are welcome! Don't be shy. And finally, the Platinum Concorde: 1st: Gus, 526 1/3 (1st, 526 1/3); 2nd: Faye, 491 (2nd, 483); 3rd: North, 365 (3rd, 364); 4th: Penguin, 327 1/3 (4th, 309 1/3); 5th: Number1Ump, 288 (5th, 288); 6th: Nalazoo, 282 1/3 (6th, 270 1/3); 7th: Nokitano, 263 incl. one 1st and eight 2nd places (7th, 263); 8th: Vic, 263 incl. one 1st and three 2nd places (8th, 248); 9th: Snowbird, 221 (9th, 221); 10th: Ktc24, 212 (10th, 204). The pecking order in the Concorde Top Ten remains exactly the same. But subtle shifts are underlying the deceptive calm. Faye is slowly but inexorably (remember? Freight Train Faye) approaching Gus. She's now 35 points behind, and flexing her thumb muscles every event whereas Gus has been sitting on his laurels. Don't let her get too close, Gus! Before you know it you've grown too fat to keep an athletic Faye off your 1st place! Just sayin'. Nalazoo is getting ready to jump Ump, with only 5 2/3 points separating them. If Ump doesn't jump back in, 'Zoo needs only 7th place to win a place in the Concorde League standings. Lower down, Vic has once more come alongside Nokitano in an attempt to retake 7th place for the third time; he really seems attached to it. He still stays in 8th, however, on account of Nokitano having no fewer than eight second places under his belts, against the Sheriff's three. (And both have precisely one 1st place so it comes down to those 2nds!) Thus we conclude today's MOFO report. Ah, what a competition. And all thanks to you, the crew. You're a great crowd. Keep on trucking and see y'all in Port Hedland! Cheers, M.
Seems to me that so far they've only been laying tracks in Europe and the Americas. Different classes of track, by the looks of it. Plus a Transatlantic Tunnel that I'd love to see IRL... Cheers, M.
Nice story. I'm putting that in the MOFO HQ post. ... It's nice to see Kellypad in the Top 10 for ... um ... where are we going today? ... oh, it's Port Hedland. (having a hard time remembering the name of this city) #1 with 2401 jobs is our resident polar bird. #10 with 280 is Kellypad. Who is the UNKNOWN in #8 with 396 jobs?
Kiddo's asleep, wife's has a night out, it means... Series night GoT S03E07 S03E08 and Vikings last episode from S1 \O/ ...and maybe some plane flinging later on!
Quick question Hello, I'm fairly new to Pocket Planes and have only just started participating in the global events. I'm know that 'special' planes and parts are given away as prizes but have 'normal' planes and parts eg Cloudliners, Cyclones ever been given as prizes? Love reading this forum.
There have been three events with normal planes for the prize: The start of December saw a Supergopher-P given during a fire in Argentina. Just before Christmas, the top "prize" was a Bearclaw-P PART for an event in Australia. Finally, a Mardi Gras event in the Big Easy saw a Sequoia-P given as the top prize.
Hi Faye, Thanks for the mention! It really is fun to see your own name up there, however short-lived! . Happy flying!
